Easter 2012

I feel like Easter is so commercialized and such a quick holiday I wanted to try to make it special and try to teach the kids the real reason we celebrate Easter. I searched the internet for ideas.  On sugardoodle.com they had a couple of ideas.  This is the one I chose to do Our Week Long Eater Experience.  Starting on Monday, each night we had a talk about the important events that went on the final week of Christ’s life on earth and had fun activities and treats to help the kids remember better what went on.  The kids loved it.  I did too.  Their favorite part was the last supper.  we sat on the floor with a blanket and had kababs.  Easter was a bit it more meaningful year and this will be a new tradition for us.  The Easter Bunny might start coming on Friday night too. 

We of course did the usual Easter traditions too.  The kids love decorating eggs and the Easter Bunny came to our house.  Some of the kids made it to the Easter Egg hunt.  Hailey and I got to go to a baptism that morning of a girl in her church class.

A couple of weeks after Easter my mom put on the yearly Easter Egg hunt.  It was a great success.  The men hid the eggs this year and I think they should do that from now on too. The kids loved it and all the fun things they got in their eggs.  (I loved the treats for the adults!)  Thanks mom for the effort you make to do this every year.

Our kids look so grown up in these pics...